Kakashi was relaxing on their new couch with his eyes closed and his head in Obito's lap. The other man was gently stroking his hair while softly humming some tune he'd picked up somewhere. A warm breeze blowing gently through the open window.

Over the years the apartment that their sensei had gotten them looked a lot more lived in. They had gone through many couches along the line, the floors were scuffed, and they really needed to buy a new coffee table.

There was a height chart on the door jam of the entrance way to the kitchen. They used it with the orphaned children they took in. Naruto had been the first, they had taken him in only a few months after they had gotten together, he had only been a week old. His height went from age three to present day at age twenty one, it hadn't changed much since age seventeen but he insisted on marking it every year.

Both Sasuke and Sakura were on there as well, though they had never lived with them. Sasuke's height was only marked twice, ages twelve and thirteen. Sakura's ended at age nineteen. Shockingly enough it had been she who had ended Sasuke's reign of terror, though the price had been her own life.

Their other four kids were all on the chart. Their only girl, Akiha, was fifteen and tough as nails, she was already a well respected jounin. She shared an apartment with her best friend in the jounin housing district.

The twins were ten, Taro and Sora, both were genin. They were out doing their early morning training and would be back soon to get ready for the ceremony at noon.

The youngest at five years old, quietly reading a scroll on the floor next to them was Sakumo. He was Sakura's son, a parting gift from a mission when she just fifteen years old. She had insisted on keeping the little guy. He was named after Kakashi's own father after he refused to let her name the boy Kakashi, even after the very flattering speech about how he was the closest thing to a father she had.

When Sakura died there had been no shortage of volunteers to take the little pink haired boy in but her will stated that she had wanted Kakashi and Obito to raise him in her stead.

Kakashi sighed as he reached up and pulled Obito's hand down so he could kiss the palm. "I suppose we'd better start getting ready, it's almost time." He said as he sat up, careful not to kick Sakumo as he swung his feet down to the floor.

Obito stood. "We finally get a day off and we still can't just relax!" He sighed. "Oh well, can't be helped." He grinned. "Come on Sakumo, let's go scrounge up some clean clothes." He picked the small boy up and flipped him around so he was upside down in his arms. Sakumo giggled.

Kakashi stood and went into the bedroom he had shared with Obito for the past twenty two. He pulled two clean uniforms out of the closet, one for himself and one for Obito. Pulling his own on he heard the front door open and close, he could feel the twins' chakra and hear their laughter. "Make sure you're clean." He called out. After a chorus of 'OK's, from Obito and Sakumo as well as the twins, he pulled on his vest and fastened it.

It didn't take long for them to get out the door. They meet Akiha at the parade grounds and together, with his ten Nin-dogs at their feet, the family of six watched as twenty one year old Uzumaki Naruto, Kakashi's last remaining student, accepted the title of Hokage.

Obviously this epilogue is completely AU but I like happy endings just as much as I like sad endings. This needed a happy ending!

This is the end my friends!

'Another Life' will only have one more chapter.
Then I'll update 'Deafening Silence' (Who the hell knows how many more chapters that has left in it. (Probably a lot.)) I've got the next chapter half written.
'Anbu' will be updated eventually.
I've got a new story idea bouncing around in my head as well as a few oneshots.

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